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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
PART ONE - The Discovery of Gambling
1 - Thoth’s Gift
2 - The Die Is Cast
3 - Knaves and Kings
PART TWO - Gambling Becomes a Science
4 - Taming Tyche
5 - The Ridotto Revolution
PART THREE - Gambling Takes to the Sea
6 - All Is on the Hazard
7 - Star-Spangled Gamblers
8 - Baiting John Bull
PART FOUR - Europeans Gamble at Home and Abroad
9 - Seeking the Cure
10 - Flight of the Sparrow
PART FIVE - The United States Bets Big
11 - Wild Cards
12 - Fools of Fortune
PART SIX - Gambling for Fun and Profit
13 - A Sunny Place for Shady People
14 - Wise Guys and One-Armed Bandits
PART SEVEN - The Legitimization of American Gambling
15 - Hard to Resist
16 - The Salvation of Sin
17 - A Place in the Sun
PART EIGHT - Gambling’s New Prominence
18 - Runaway American Dream
19 - All In
PART NINE - Into the Twenty-First Century
20 - A Clockwork Volcano
21 - The Dream
Acknowledgements
NOTES
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX
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